West Virginia Wesleyan College - Murmurmontis Yearbook (Buckhannon, WV)

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APARTMENT LIFE There are two choices of lifestyles on campus: liv- ing in the residence hall or the supposed better side of life, the apartment. In an apartment setting, the sur- roundings are more like home. The similarity arises in cooking meals for yourself when you want to eat, grocery shopping, cleaning the bathroom, and even paying your own utility bills each month. Life in an apartment is not all cooking and cleaning. The advantage which I can see as most prevalent is that of not having any visitation hours, except those that are set among roommates. Social gather- ings in the apartments are also fairly comfortable; fit- ting 30 humans into a residence hall room is not an easy task. Yet another advantage is that there are not any Resident Assistants roaming around. I must stop occasionally in amazement at these human advan- tages — we hobbits enjoy our sleep. One of the most inconvenient aspects is the wait, which occurs in the morning when five people have to get ready for their first class. The wait is not as bad as being last and finding the water cold. Aside from dirty dishes in the morning, the rest is peaches and cream . . . well almost. Diversions

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R E S I D E N H A L L S Yes, the residence hall, most typical students know them well. The atmosphere found there is like no other in this little community. The ever-present sound of stereos echoing down the hallway, the feel- ing of a cold bathroom floor in the morning, the occasional yelling of showers bouncing off the walls, and of course, the not so often scream of a person taking a shower when some half-crazed student forgets to yell showers. Flushing the commode in the residence halls must give humans an incredible sense of power. Knowing that you may scald half of the cam- pus, if you remain silent. Why do you think that Turnstyle steals the shower heads? 1 guess that he has been burnt too many times. Of course, there is more to a residence hall than plumbing. It is a place to study, a place to read, and a place to cultivate lasting relation- ships. And above all, a place to relax and break the monotony of classes. 10 Diversions

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STRANGE GAMES? Do you know that the worse thing that could happen to a hobbit is? Discovering a bunch of humans roll- ing dice, laughing and carrying on while pretending to be elves and hobbits of all things. How degrading. Of course they were only playing a game called Dungeons and Dragons. We really should clarify something here, hobbits do exist and elves, well some of my best friends are elves. To the subject at hand. Dungeons and Dragons is one of the more off- beat games played around here. Mainly because it is so different than any other game normally played. It has no board, but it does have fairly strict rules and regulations. D D is known as a role-playing game because characters are acted out by the participants. Dice are used to determine just about everything in the game, but the most interesting facet of D D is that almost anything that occurs in real life can be played out, and then some. Dungeons and Dragons is just one of the many games commonly played. Other favorites include Risk, a board game in which players con- trol armies and, well, they take over the world; card games; one of the more popular games. Backgammon; and for the more intellectual, like myself. Chess. There are many others of course, but they all serve the same purpose, to break the monotony of class and the bordeom of just staring at the wall. Ahh, escapism. My personal favorite is the movies, but I always seem to get sat on. 12 Diversions